Checker and base-ball com bination gam e



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ATTORNEYS Patented Jan 29, 1884.

' TOWNER,

GHEGKER AND BASE BALL COMBINATION'GAMEQ I 2 Y. 1 a i z 1 r. 2. m J m V v e 4/ a. M z z\ (Mode IQ) UNITED STATES- HIRAM SMITH trownnn; onD TTo-N, MICHIGAN.

CHECK-ER AND BASE-BALL COMBINATION GAM E.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 292,7O9, dated January 29, 1884',

i I Application filed June 28, 1883. (ModoL) To all whom. may concern.-

Be it known that I, HIRAM SMITH TOWNER, of Dutton, in the county. of Kent and. State of Michigan, have invented a newand Improved Checker and BaseBall Combination Game, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

The object of my invention is to provide a new and amusing toy, which is played-in a manner similar to checkers.

The invention consists in a game-board subdivided in about the same manner as a checker-board, and'provided with additional out-' side squares or fields. The game is played with two sets of stones or nine men in each set, which stenes are designated by letters in the same manner as the players in thegame of base-ball are known by certain letters on their score-books.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawing, forming part H of this specification, in which a plan view of my improved gameboard and the stones thereon in position for beginning the game is shown.

The game-board Ais provided with a square formed of small dark squares (wand light squares b, of which squares there are seven rows, with seven squares in each row, as shown. The squares b can be made in red, buff, go1d,.or white, and the squares to are preferably made black or brown, the same as in any other checker or chess board. At the middleof each side of the large square formed by the smallsquares a. b an additional light square, Z),lS' arranged outside of the large square, and the centers of the small squares b are united by lines d, which cross the three squares b between each two squares b diagonally, and form a square within the square formed by the small: squares a b. At the base and head endof the game-board an additional light square, f, is arranged diagonally to the right or left, respectively, from the outside center square, b.- The corner squares or fields, b, are marked F. The side fields, b, are marked B. The top and bottom fields, b, are marked home, and the fields f are marked 0.

To play the game, two sets of stones of different color are required, each set containing nine stones, of which two, marked 0 and I", and known as catcher and pitcher, are

higher or thicker than the rest. are marked B, and are known as basemen.

Three'stones are marked F, and are known as fielders, and one stone is marked S S, and is known as short-stop. The men or stones are placed on the board as follows: The catchers on the squares O, the pitchers on the squares home, the three fielders and theshort-stop on the four squares b of the first row, and the three hasemen on the three fields b of the second row. The other set of men or stones are arranged in the same manner on the opposite part of theboard. The

Three stones pitcher and catcher are kings from the start,

and may move in any direction they chose. The basemen are kings as soon as they reach thebase-row on the opposite side of the board. The fielders and short-stops are kings when they reach the fielders row on the opposite side of the board. When only three or less men are left, they are not permitted to move off the large square upon one of the squares b or f. Otherwise the game is played very similarly to checkers.

I do not abandon or dedicate to the public any patentable feature set forthherein and not hereinafter claimed, but reserve the right to claim the same either in a reissue of any patent that may be granted upon this application or in other applications for Letters Patcut that I may make.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is'

1. A game-board provided with a square formed of small squares, and having a small square outside of the main square at the middle of each side of the large square, substantially as herein shown and described.

2. A game-board provided with a square formed of vsmall squares, with additionalsquares outside of the main square at the mid- I of which stones one in each set is marked C 10 dle of each side of the same, and with lines or catcher, one P or pitcher, three B or uniting the centers of the outside squares, and basemen, three F or fielders, and one SS forming a large square figure, substantially as or short-stop, substantially as herein shown herein shown and described. and described.

5. The combination, with the game-board HIRAM SMITH TOXVNER.

A, provided with a large square formed of smaller squares, a b, and the additional squares, I) f, of two sets of men or stones of nine each,

Witnesses:

WM. M. ROBINSON, NELSON \V. NORTHROP. 

